Principal Software Engineer

Overview

This role provides senior technical leadership across multiple teams, helping to shape architecture, engineering practices, and modernisation efforts. You will work through influence, contributing hands-on where it matters most, while supporting teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient systems. The role focuses on long-term technical health, collaboration, and practical innovation, including the responsible use of AI in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead through influence to align technical direction across teams and domains
• Partner with architects, engineering leaders, and product teams to shape strategy and execution
• Define and evolve domain architecture, service boundaries, and integration patterns
• Contribute directly to complex or high-risk engineering work where it adds the most value
• Drive modernisation efforts, reducing technical debt and evolving toward cloud-native patterns
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, resilience, and incident learning
• Establish pragmatic technical standards and promote consistency across teams
• Mentor engineers in architecture, systems thinking, and engineering best practices

Qualifications

• Experience operating as a senior or principal engineer across multiple teams or domains
• Proven ability to influence architectural direction and drive cross-team technical change
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and integration patterns
• Experience with event-driven architectures and modern cloud-based systems
• Backend engineering expertise with Java, Spring Boot, and microservices
• Familiarity with modern frontend technologies and polyglot environments
• Experience with containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and applying GenAI concepts in production

Benefits

• Flexible working patterns to suit individual needs
• Wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals

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